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A remote mac user cannot access main office server 2003 while remote PC can.
Below are the brief details.

Remote Lan: 192.168.10.0    machine: Mac OS X (192.168.10.176)

Local Lan: 192.168.8.0    machine: Server 2003(192.168.8.250)

On Server 2003 firewall exceptions > add scope to the following ports.
- At File and Printer Sharing page:
       i. TCP 139 scope:
192.168.8.0/255.255.255.0,192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0
       ii.TCP 445 scope:
192.168.8.0/255.255.255.0,192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0

When remote PCs (192.168.10.0) connect to Server 2003, server's share
folders can be accessed.
When remote Mac OS X (192.168.10.176) connect to Server 2003 ( ie.
smb://192.168.8.250), error -36 message will be appeared.

On Server 20003, I notice that about Mac connection as below.

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C:\>netstat -n
Active Connections
Proto     Local Address           Foreign Address                 State
TCP     192.168.8.250:139     192.168.10.176:49268     TIME_WAIT
TCP     192.168.8.250:139     192.168.10.176:49269     TIME_WAIT
TCP     192.168.8.250:139     192.168.10.176:49270     TIME_WAIT
TCP     192.168.8.250:139     192.168.10.176:49271     TIME_WAIT

C:\>netstat
Active Connections
Proto     Local Address         Foreign Address                     State
TCP     uwfs:netbios-ssn     POWERBOOK:49268             TIME_WAIT
TCP     uwfs:netbios-ssn     POWERBOOK:49269             TIME_WAIT
TCP     uwfs:netbios-ssn     POWERBOOK:49270             TIME_WAIT
TCP     uwfs:netbios-ssn     POWERBOOK:49271             TIME_WAIT

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From the above figure, Mac connection seems successful and related TCP 139
port is opened to allow incoming network connections on server 2003. But Mac
user still can't access win2003 server's share folders.  What's happen? How
do I fix it. Please kindly advise, Thanks much.